This blog carnival is an effort to encourage a variety of different voices to speak about asexuality from their own perspectives. Anyone can participate, but the responses should deal with asexuality or the asexual spectrum (grey-As, demisexuals) in some way. They should also relate in some way to the theme of each round of the carnival, which will change from month to month and will be chosen by the person hosting the carnival for that month.

The scope of this project is general–any post dealing with both asexuality and the theme of the carnival is welcome. Alternate forms of media are also welcome as long as they deal with the prompt! If you’re not sure whether your piece is okay, submit it anyway and we’ll figure it out.

FAQ:

What is a blog carnival?

A blog carnival is an event in which various people write posts around a single topic. These posts are then collected at the end of the carnival and linked together by the carnival’s host.

How can I submit a piece for the carnival?

Instructions for submitting pieces for the carnival are on each month’s call for participation post. The current one is here, and the current topic is gender.

What does it take to host the carnival?

You need to have your own blog, first. The person hosting each round of the carnival chooses the theme that that round revolves around, so by the time your round comes up it’s good to have a theme in mind.

How can I volunteer to be a carnival host?

You can sign up to host a future round of the carnival by commenting on this post with the month you wish to host and the blog you’ll be hosting from. You do not need to have a theme until the start of your round.

Alternatively, you can email me at sciatrix@gmail.com to see about hosting a round of the carnival and to be added to the list.

I think you should add another question to your FAQ: How do I submit an article? You need to link to the latest call for participation.

BTW, both you and Ily offered to host articles on your own blogs for people who don’t want to put it on their own blogs or don’t have their own blogs. I’m unwilling to do this when it’s my turn. Do you think this is a problem, and should I offer some alternative?

Done! That’s a good point–I meant to fix it a while back but got distracted between my computer issues and my finals.

I don’t think that’s a problem, and I don’t think that offering to host guest posts should be a requirement of being willing to host. I’m still willing to do that whether or not it’s my turn to host or not, so feel free to put a note to that effect pointing people in my direction if you want. Or you could just not offer to do it. Either way seems fine to me.

Can I sign up for January, over at Confessions of an Ist? (I’m hoping January would work best with my school schedule; however, I may need to switch to a later month. If I do, I should know by September or October.)

Ok, so when it says October (combined with the info in your reply), that means that round will run through September, and the round-up post should be coming out on October 1, did I get that right?
(This is hard, I need to verify :D)

[…] with one of my fellow guest posters for August, Lola. This post was originally written for the Carnival of Aces blog carnival on relationships. As stated in the call for submissions, the topic was meant to be as […]

If you need someone to host the February carnival, I’d be happy to do it. Also, if it turns out that Aydan can’t do January (which was mentioned as a possibility in the comments), I could do that as well. Let me know.

Yeah, I can do it. I’ll probably have to post the round-up on December 2nd instead of December 1st because of school, but I can do it, no problem. Also, I might shoot you an email; I’ve got two possible themes in mind, and I can’t decide between them.

[…] <b>Carnival of Aces</b>- Here’s to this blog carnival continuing throughout 2012, as I am just getting on that bus now with this entry. I intend to participate in this carnival more often, hopefully every month. It would be expected that the quality of carnival topics would continue, so I’m going to enjoy being an active participant […]

Yeaaaah, we’re pretty empty, probably because word hasn’t been going around. If you could host it, that would be great–I’m really busy at the moment with interviews–and if no one else wants it after that I’ll pick it up and take a month for myself.

It’s probably going to be a while again before I can reliably put out posts, but I should be able to host after March or April. So if you want you can put me down for any month after that, with possibly the exception of July.

Uh, is it really rude to say that this post is kind of… unsettling? It seems to be a full copy of Kaz’s post from Feministe (which always seems wrong to me to begin with, though the intro still says Kaz wrote it basically, there does not seem to be any info about reblogging this from Feministe anywhere there), translated from English to something else and then back to English, which makes a lot of the wording (near-)incomprehensible, and it also now says ‘chaste’ everywhere instead of asexual?

Would “compulsory sexuality” be an ok topic for this month’s carnival? In a really broad sense, I thought it would be cool to look at people’s experiences with the way that sex is foregrounded in society, or the way that romantic relationships are foregrounded over platonic relationships, or feelings of pressure to have a more “socially acceptable” stance on relationships, sex and sexuality.

I want to post a call for submissions soon, so if you could get back to me that would be great 🙂 Can I also include a round up of posts that aren’t written for the monthly theme?